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Smith, Adam
Although Adam Smith (1723&#x2013;1790) was not the originator of many of the ideas that became modern economics, his synthesizing treatise, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wea...
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Smith, Adam [addendum]
Adam Smith&#x0027;s claim on the history of aesthetics lies in his essay, &#x0022;Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes place in what are called the Imitative Arts,&#x0022...
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Smith, Adam(1723&#x2013;1790)
Adam Smith, one of the most influential political economists of Western society, first became known as a moral philosopher. Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. His fat...
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The Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) believed that in a laissez-faire economy the impulse of self-interest would work toward the public welfare.Adam Smith was born on Ju...
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There is something of a cult of Adam Smith at present. One devotee (George J. W. Goodman) has appropriated Smith's name to sell books about making money, others advise local and central governments in...
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Today Adam Smith is known mainly as an economic theorist, author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), and virtual patron saint of the free market. In his own time,...
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The Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) believed that in a laissez-faire economy the impulse of self-interest would work toward the public welfare. Adam Smith was born on J...
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Adam Smith, along with David Hume and Adam Ferguson, was one of the great figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. England very wealthy by the middle of the 18th century, and Englishmen wondering where...
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Adam Smith is commonly regarded as the father of economics. He was famous for his fabulously written book An Inquiry into the Nature of and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In this series, he combine...
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